The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development on Wednesday said that 14,020 Batch A and B N-Power beneficiaries alleging non-payment for four months have accounts with other Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
The Ministry uncovered this in an announcement by Rhoda Iliya, the Deputy Director, Information.
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Iliya clarified that the Ministry has consistently processed, approved and remitted necessary information for payments to the Office of the Accountant–General of the Federation (OAGF) whose responsibility it is to credit the various accounts of the beneficiaries using the GIFMIS platform as directed by FGN.
The announcement read to a limited extent:-
“However, after receiving a complaint of non-payment by some beneficiaries who did same through the Ministry, the OAGF (GIFMIS) officially wrote informing the Ministry that out of a total of Five Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Six Hundred (516,600) N-Power beneficiaries data sent to OAGF for migration in April 2020, only a total of Five Hundred and Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Eighty (502,580) data have successfully migrated to the GIFMIS platform, while a total of Fourteen Thousand and Twenty (14,020) beneficiaries were returned because the beneficiaries’ account details already exist in other MDAs, which is against the established rule of the N-Power Programme. This is verifiable.”
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The announcement included that Minister Sadiya Umar Farouq laments any bother this may have caused qualified and certifiable beneficiaries just as the OAGF saddled with the responsibility of filtering out those denied is working assiduously to remedy the situation.
